The conditions of the shahadah are 7:

• • Knowledge – to understand what it means.

  • Certainty – to have no doubt about anything confirmed in the Quran or Sunnah.

  • Acceptance – by the tongue and the heart of whatever the Shahadah implies.

  • Submission/compliance – the actual physical enactment by deeds.

  • Truthfulness – to say the Shahadah sincerely, with honesty, to actually mean it.

  • Sincerity – to do it solely for the sake of Allah.

  • Love – to love the Shahadah and to love its implications and requirements and what it stands for.

The second part of the Shahadah also has conditions:

• To believe in the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, and in whatever he told us and conveyed to us.

• To obey him in whatever he commanded us to do.

• To stay away from or avoid whatever he commanded us not to do.

• To follow or emulate him in our ibadah, akhlaq and way of life.

• To love him more than we love ourselves, our family and anything else in this world.

• To understand, practice and promote his Sunnah in the best way possible, without creating any chaos, enmity or harm.